U.S. Senator Robert Menendez On International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today, here in the United States and around the world in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we stop and reflect on the six million Jewish souls that perished at the hands of a brutal Nazi regime, a regime that had no respect for human life and whose callousness was an indelible scar on the human conscience. Senator Menendez issued the following statement:

“We will always remember and mourn the six million Jews that perished in this dark period of history. With the focus this year on the Children and the Holocaust, we can only lament the fact that of the six million, one and a half million were children, innocent children who never had the opportunity to create, invent, fulfill their dreams and pass on their Jewish heritage to the next generation. As the survivors numbers dwindle, let us make a vow to remember their stories and pass on their sad lessons to the young, so that they will learn from it and prevent it from happening in the future. As United States Senator representing the State of New Jersey where we have recently seen anti-Semitism rear its ugly head, I promise that I will do everything I can to eradicate the hatred that seeds acts of intolerance and will focus efforts on ensuring that this is on the national agenda. ”